The moment guaranteed high political drama, and the setting did it full
justice. On a remote strip of bush along the border between their two
countries, with the Lebombo mountains as a backdrop and hippos snorting
in the nearby Nkomati River, Prime Minister P.W. Botha of apartheid
South Africa and President Samora Machel of black-ruled, Marxist
Mozambique last week sat down together for the first time and faced
something other than the prospect of killing. As a crowd of 1,000,
including representatives of...